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The hypothetical evolution of a virus after a cross species jump (host shift). Evolution along the new host branches is non-stationary. The inset figure shows a computer simulation of the frequency of an arbitrary nucleotide i along evolutionary time (d) after a host shift. The equilibrium frequency in the reservoir host is π i* and in the new host is πi
